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...advocacy group Noise Free America, that noise levels are becoming unbearable. During the summer months, I like to open my windows and enjoy the fresh warm air, but I have to shut them quickly because of the racket from outdoors. You said that Rueter may move to New Zealand for some peace and quiet: Can I go too? ELVA WOITO Cambridge...
Ideal vacation spot: P: South of France. V: New Zealand...
...Rueter isn't joking about possibly moving to New Zealand. And if he does go, it won't be the frenzy or the expense of living in the U.S. that drives him away. It will be the leaf blowers. Americans now own more than 90 million of the infernal things, he says, each of them making the job of lawn clearing much easier--and much, much louder. Rueter, a onetime political-science professor at UCLA who is head of the advocacy group Noise Free America, already fled Los Angeles to get away from the leaf-blower blight, only to move...
...Saint Mary's Convent: It's hard to believe that nuns once lived in this artfully restored five-room lodge in Marlborough, New Zealand's Sauvignon Blanc capital, but it remains perfectly heavenly today. Rates start from $163 a night; convent.co.nz...
...NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who oversaw the first launch of a U.S. spacecraft into orbit; in La Canada Flintridge, Calif. The quiet giant of the U.S. space program from 1954 to 1976, during the height of its space race with the Soviet Union, Pickering emigrated from New Zealand to study electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology...